Ballinamore's Eilish O'Dowd nominated for TG4 All Star award

Ballinamore's Eilish O'Dowd has been nominated for the 2023 TG4 Ladies All-Stars after the nominations were announced by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association on Tuesday afternoon.

The former Leitrim star is nominated alongside fellow Dublin midfielder Jennifer Dunne, Donegal's Niamh McLaughlin, Kerry duo Louise Galvin & Lorraine Scanlon as well as Galway's Nicola Ward. The 2023 TG4 All Star team will be announced at a gala banquet at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday, November 18.

Leitrim's last All-Star winner was Eilish's Ballinamore clubmate Sarah McLoughlin who was honoured at centre-forward on the 2007 All-Star team, the year in which Leitrim won the All-Ireland Intermediate crown.

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Dublin’s 12 nominees are goalkeeper Abby Shiels, defenders Niamh Crowley, Leah Caffrey, Martha Byrne and Lauren Magee, midfield pair Jennifer Dunne and Eilish O’Dowd, and forwards Orlagh Nolan, Caoimhe O’Connor, Kate Sullivan, team captain Carla Rowe and Hannah Tyrrell, who was the All-Ireland Senior Final Player of the Match.

No Leitrim player made the cut for the TG4 Intermediate team of the year which was announced earlier this month. The 2023 TG4 Junior, Intermediate and Senior Players’ Player of the Year award winners will also be revealed on the night, while the 2023 inductee into the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) Hall of Fame will be acknowledged.